Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Little consensus has emerged regarding how proximate and ultimate drivers such as
productivity, disturbance and temperature may affect species richness and other aspects of …

The Maximum Entropy Theory of Ecology (METE), is a theoretical framework of
macroecology that makes a variety of realistic ecological predictions about how species …

Macroecological studies have established widespread patterns of species diversity and
abundance in ecosystems but have generally restricted their scope to relatively steady‐state …

In the first part of the paper we work out the consequences of the fact that Jaynes' Maximum
Entropy Principle, when translated in mathematical terms, is a constrained extremum …

The assessment of biological diversity and the processes that govern it is important for
ecological research and nature conservation. This review describes the main general …

Aim An ecological community consists of species of various abundances that reflect their
responses to the environmental conditions. A classic macroecological pattern, the species …

Constraint-based models use steady-state mass balances to define a solution space of flux
configurations, which can be narrowed down by measuring as many fluxes as possible. Due …

Aim Both macroecology and disturbance ecology have long been used to characterize
population‐and community‐level patterns across scales, but the integration of both …

Spatial patterns in ecology contain useful information about underlying mechanisms and
processes. Although there are many summary statistics used to quantify these spatial …